From the 1936 first issue of the extraordinary pictorial magazine Life, now Google archived here, comes this marvelously atmospheric painting of a Kansas tornado by John Stewart Curry :



And this photo of a young girl drinking in a Montana bar at the height of the Great Depression :



You could lose weeks, months, going through the online archive of Life Magazine. The photos, the short, blog post length blurbs, the illustrations, the ads, just beautiful. So much forgotten history and information.